[114102] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calhoun, Matthew)
Fri May 1 04:01:23 2009
From: "Calhoun, Matthew" <mcalhoun@iodatacenters.com>
To: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 01:01:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20090501042538.GE12911@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We've had this happen with many new IP allocations. There's a Google FAQ fo=
r it at...
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=3Den&answer=3D873
Take care,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU]=20
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:26 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:57:23PM -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
>=20
> > I have a customer who received a new assignment from ARIN, but the
> > GeoIP data is returning Canada rather than the US as the location of
> > the IP prefix. Google redirects to www.google.ca and some other sites
> > aren't working correctly because they expect a US IP. Does anyone
> > have any advice on how to update the GeoIP and other similar
> > databases?
>=20
> What's the allocation?
74.112.8.0/21
Google has been contacted and they said it will take a month for stuff=20
to update. The customer has also updated hostip.info.
